Electrical change order for what the inspector wants.
On a panel upgrade, the change usually isn't the customer's idea. The service cable is cracked at the meter, the inspector wants AFCI on the circuits you touched, the ground rod is a rusted stub. This form explains each one in plain words before you bill for it.
Change order
| Item | Qty | Unit | Rate | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add: replace service entrance cable, meter to panel Existing cable jacket cracked and brittle at the meter | 24 | linear ft | $32.00 | $768.00 |
| Add: AFCI breakers, bedroom circuits Required on circuits extended or replaced under the permit | 6 | each | $58.00 | $348.00 |
| Add: ground rods and bonding upgrade Two rods, new grounding electrode conductor, water pipe bond | 1 | job | $325.00 | $325.00 |
| Credit: whole-home surge protector Customer declined | -1 | each | $295.00 | -$295.00 |
Click any text to change it. Rates and the tax rate are examples, so put in your own. Totals update as you type.
What this template covers
- Code-driven changes with the reason written for a homeowner, not an inspector
- Wire by the linear foot, breakers and devices by the each, grounding as one job line
- A credit for an option the customer turned down, so the original estimate still reconciles
- The permit number and the inspection and utility dates the change has to fit around
- A heads-up about the power outage, the question every panel customer asks
Doing it in Redline
Send the chat a photo of the cracked cable at the meter and "change order for Kaminski: 24 ft SE cable at $32, 6 AFCI at $58, grounding $325." It builds the lines as a quote and saves it on his file, and it can draft a plain-English email explaining why each one is needed, sent from your Gmail after you read it.
Inspections move. "Push the Kaminski inspection to Friday at 10" moves the calendar event, and a date-only reminder ("remind me Thursday to confirm the utility reconnect") shows up in that morning's push on the iPhone app. When it passes, invoice by chat with a card pay link on Solo ($29 a month). See electrical estimating for how the original quote gets built.
Explain the change, then bill it.
Redline is free to start. The quote and the explaining email both come from the chat.
Keep reading
- Change order templateAdded work, credits for removed work, the reason, the new total and signatures.
- Electrical estimate templateService upgrade: panel, meter socket, breakers, grounding, meter pull, permit.
- Electrical invoice templateEV charger install with breaker, wire per foot, permit and deposit credit.
- Electrical softwareQuote panel upgrades and EV chargers by the device, and bill the small jobs too.
- Electrical estimating softwareWalkthrough counts in, a per-device quote with permit and deposit out.